Combined bench and i ronsng-table



(No Model.)-

D. H. WELLER.

oommmm) BENCH AND 1110mm TABLE.

Patented'Feb. 1

'mmlm ATTORNEYS.

Unites States PATENT Quince,

DANIEL H. \VELLER, OF BOYERTOXl-"N, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED BENCH AND lRONlNG-TABLE.

Application filed August 18, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. WELLER, of Boyertown, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Bench and Ironing-Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a combined bench and ironing-table; and it has for its object to produce a piece of furniture of pleasingexterior that will serve the dual purpose of a seat and a table to iron upon; and, further, to provide within the bench at compartment wherein I the wraps used with the ironing may be handily and conveniently stored.

It consists to that end in the construction and combination of the parts, as will be hereinafter fully setforth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a central longitudinal vertical section of my device used as an ironingtable; Fig. 2, a central longitudinal vertical section thereof used as a bench. Fig. 3 is a plan view, with the board partly cut away; Fig. 4, a perspective view of one end thereof, show ing one hinged support for the ironing-board in position. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of the bolt and hinged socket-box.

A represents the side pieces of a bench, B the legs, (3 C the end pieces, and C" a central crossbrace. The bench thus formed is provided with stationary top pieces, a a, at one end, which, n niting at their projecting or outer ends, have their inner edges curved inwardly and outwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, and covered with a thin strip of angle-iron, o extending up flush with the top of said top pieces, a

a1, and bent to conform with the curved contour of their inner edges. A brace, a, extends from side to side of the bench under the stationary top pieces, a a, to support the same.

The upper ends of the legs B are formed with tenons to receive the lower ends of the supports D, which are hinged thereto and adapted to extend upward, forming a continuation of the legs B, to engage with an ironing-board, E, and sustain the same in a hori- -?EGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,909, dated February 1, 1887.

Serial No. 211,198. (No model) zontal position above the bench. This sup port is accomplished by the entrance of the tongue cl, formed upon the free end of the hinged supports D, into socket-boxes F, which are fitted in recesses formed in the board, so that the hinged lids covering the boxes are flush with the bench-surface of said board. W hen the board is thus placed in position to be ironed upon, the hinged lidsf of the socketed boxes F are opened back, so that they will bear againstthe sides of the hinged supports D, the openingf in the lids receiving the pins 6, projecting from the sides of the said hinged supports 1). A metal plate, 9, having pivoted thereon a button, 9, isattached to the sides of the supports D in such position as that the upper square edge of the metal plate 9' will nearly touch the edge of the lid f of the box F when opened, as above, so that the buttons 9' may be turned to cover the lower portion of the hinged box-lid f. Thus by means of the extended lid of the box F bearing against the side of the supports D and receiving the pin thereon, While the tongues 42 enter the said box F, together with the addition of the metal plate g and button 9', the ironing-board is held rigidly in its elevated horizontal position, as seen in Fig. 1.

The rigidity of the hinged supports D is promoted by means of another button, h, at tached to their inner sides, the said button being adapted to engage vertical slots cutin the top edge of the inner face of the side pieces, A, of the bench, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

When through ironing the button g is turned from off the box-lid j and the lid thrown back out of engagement with the pin e and the supports D; the ironing-table E is now lifted up, freeing the tongues (1 upon the supports D from the socket-box F. The second and lower button, h, is now released from its engaging-slot in the side pieces, A, of the bench, and the hinged supports D closed down within the bench to a bearing upon the central cross-piece, C. The wraps used up on the board are now taken oil and placed neatly over the supports D and central cross-piece, G". The board itself is now turned over and the narrow end thereof slid under the projection of the angle'iron a to abearing upon the upperedgesofthebench-frame. Asthenarrow end of the ironing-board E is cut away slightly along the edge to accommodate the said flange of the angle-iron, the board now forms a smooth top for the bench, which can be now 5 used as a seat or for any purpose for which a bench is intended. The covered socket-boxes F, which are recessed in the now upper surface of the board, do not break the even face thereof, as they are set just deep enough to bring the hinged lid flush with the surface of the said board E, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

The under side of the irouing-board E, as positioned to form a bench-seat, is recessed near each side at its square end, the said recesses being each covered by a metal plate, or, having an opening therein more or less diamond-shaped, adapted to receive the elongated head at of one of the bolts m, which are secured to inner faces ofthe bench side pieces,A, outside the end piece, 0. The purpose of the bolt m is to secure the broad or square end of the ironing'board to the bench-frame, the narrow end being firmly held in place by the angle-irons a", as shown in Fig. 2. The bolt is slid up into the opening in the plate a, with its elongated head m longitudinally of the slot, and when entered the bolt is turned and locked, bringing the bolt-head m transversely ofthe slot, as shown in detail, Fig. 5.

To change the board E from a bench-seatto an ironing-table, the operation is the reverse of that above stated, with the addition that theboltf m is first withdrawn from its connection with the plate '21. in the board. As the reverse side of the board is used for ironing from that usedas a seat for the bench, it (the seat) can be painted or stained to correspond with said bench.

the legs 13. I ordinarily, however, hinge the said supports D D of the ironing-board to incline from the point ofjuncture with the legs ;5 B at aslight angle from said point outward to- In the drawings the supports D D are sh own. in the same plane or inclination inward with thereof, which register with similar apertures in the board E. Through these aperturesf the lids of the said boxes are opened by means. of any slender instrument.

Instead of having an aperture, f, in the box lidf to engage with pin, 6, attached to the supports D, as shown, I may in practice make the pin integral with the lidsf of the boxes F, to engage a properly-guarded recess in the supports D.

Having thus fully deseribed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. In a combined bench and ironing-board, the combination, with a reversible iboard,E, provided with covered socket-boxes F, of the supports D D, hingedto the legs of a bench, substantially as shown and described, and fori the purpose herein set forth.

2. In a combined bench and ironing-board, the combination, with the frame thereof having side pieces, A, and end pieces, 0 O, of the stationary top pieces, a to, having a strip of angle-iron, a secured to their inner curved surfaces, and the reversible board E, substantially as shown and described, :and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. A reversible ironing-board provided with the socket-boxes F, having hinged apertured lids upon one side and reeesses upon the other 8 covered by the apertured metal plates 12, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set forth.

4. In a combined bench and ironing-board,

the combination, with the frame thereof, consisting of the side pieces, A, end cross-pieces,- G 0, legs BB, having supports D D hinged thereto, provided with tongues (1, lower pivoted buttons, h, upper pivoted button, 9, metal plate 9, and pin a, of the reversible ironingo boardE,provided with socket-boxes F, adapted to receive said tongues (Z, and hinged aper-; tured lids f, adapted to bear against the said Y supports D and receive the pin 6, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose 5 herein set forth.

DANIEL H. \VELLER. Witnesses:

Tnos. J B. RHOADS, HENRY B. CoNNER. 

